Thompson v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

FLAHERTY, Judge.

The critical issue that this court must determine is, in a termination proceeding where the Employer’s medical witness does not clearly state that the claimant is “fully recovered,” whether or not the medical evidence is equivocal where the Employer’s medical witness, in a medical report, released Claimant to only light duty with significant restrictions and later testified that the restrictions were for an accommodation to the Claimant’s subjective complaints, and that the restrictions were not work-related.

Ella Thompson (Claimant) petitions this court to review two orders of…